I don't think the EBU dare punishing Iceland, they would face a massive backlash and be accused of picking sides in a political battle they are not meant to get involved with. There was not even a message, it just said the name of a region and was painted in the colours of said region's flag. Had it said "End the Israeli occupation of Palestine", then that would have been a message. As it was, their little statement merely said "Palestine".

Even if it were a full-blown message, so what? Is Eurovision now willing to insert itself, as a licensing body, into international politics because of what a few independent people chose to do? That would be an extreme overreaction.

I have to agree, given the EBU always celebrates Eurovision and themselves as politics free, which is... interesting to say the least given some past performances. It'd go agasinst their entire message if they did indeed take action.

It'd also reflect poorly I feel if they did go after Iceland, given Madonna did the exact same thing, and even if you ignore the flags on the dancers, it is... somewhat plausible they did that of their own free will without Madonnas or EBUs knowledge, her song and performance had lyrics that could be, somewhat easily, deemed to be relating to the situation in Israel/Palestine.
So it's all a bit of a fuzz with that side of things I think.

Absurdly, the EBU got the results of this year's contest wrong. The Belarusian jury was excluded, and the "aggregated" scores that replaced the jury were given in reverse, that is that the country rated as 26th got the 12-pointer. After re-calculating, the EBU have revised the Netherlands' score from 492 to 498 and Italy's score from 465 to 472.

Another change is that Sweden overhauls Norway for P5, Sweden scoring 334 instead of 331 and Norway scoring 331 instead of 338.

This does not move the UK from 26th, rather it cements the UK as the last place with 11 points.

Chrill wrote:Absurdly, the EBU got the results of this year's contest wrong. The Belarusian jury was excluded, and the "aggregated" scores that replaced the jury were given in reverse, that is that the country rated as 26th got the 12-pointer. After re-calculating, the EBU have revised the Netherlands' score from 492 to 498 and Italy's score from 465 to 472.

Another change is that Sweden overhauls Norway for P5, Sweden scoring 334 instead of 331 and Norway scoring 331 instead of 338.

This does not move the UK from 26th, rather it cements the UK as the last place with 11 points.

That's a little shambolic. Imagine if it had changed the winner!
Sad for Norway dropping out of the top 5, sometimes i do wish Eurovision was all about the public vote!

It seems most stuff on their YouTube is locked to an EU countries, Australia and a few other Europeon Broadcasting Union countries, basically if your country competes (or can compete if they do not) you get access, otherwise no